¹³ Johanan^(A) son of Kareah and all the army officers still in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah^(B)

¹⁴ and said to him, “Don’t you know that Baalis king of the Ammonites^(A) has sent Ishmael^(B) son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.

41 In the seventh month Ishmael^(A) son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood and had been one of the king’s officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. While they were eating together there,

² Ishmael^(A) son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword,^(B) killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed^(C) as governor over the land.^(D)

¹⁴ Jair,^(A) a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maakathites;^(B) it was named^(C) after him, so that to this day Bashan is called Havvoth Jair.^[a])